I tend to agree with Xenu, it's far from an easy life, but it's sure as hell nowhere near as hard as the life of a pioneer.
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no secular job.. no housework.. no cooking.. no kids.. no money worries.. no door to door work.. just meet up occasionally, thrash out the odd new policy, dish up some new light.. what a life!.
englishman..
I tend to agree with Xenu, it's far from an easy life, but it's sure as hell nowhere near as hard as the life of a pioneer.
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swamp their server.
i can tell you the subject email address went through.
i didn't get a rejection anyway.
Zev: COOOL! You are l337 too! I'm suddenly discovering all these hidden hardcore-types on this board...I could never have expected something like that. Maybe we can form an Apostate Hacker Cabal or something
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life at school.
as a schoolboy i lived a double life.
in the evening i would go from door to door with my father or attend a meeting.
This may have been written when corporal punishment was still the norm, a long time ago. Field service in the afternoons is rare though. Perhaps this guy's father was a pioneer?
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i found some poetry online from active jw's.
it's shocking how much depression, pain, and sadness is in their words.
below are a few excerpts:.
It's actually really painful to read stuff like this and realize that there are still 6 million people trapped against their will in the BORG. Ouch. This struck a pretty big damn nerve!
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how old were you when you lost your virginity and was it all that you thought it would be?????.
i was 19, and my first time was a complete let down.
i envisioned that gothic romance motif, all about romance and love, i didn't know what i was doing, didn't know sex was like that.
Derrick: You will be a completely different person in 10 years. Come back to us then and tell us if your hasty life-long commitment is still that - a life-long commitment. What are the chances of your new, older personality and your wife's new, older personality being compatible? Pretty slim, if you ask me. People who marry during the teenage-adult transition phase tend to have the highest divorce rate, simply because the person you marry usually lands up changing quite dramatically as they enter true adulthood (something I admit I still have to do).
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could someone please post the entire contents of the june 15, 2000 watchtower's questions from readers.
i can't find it, and sure don't want to go to the kh to get it.
(although i think i might order the jw cd-rom, so i'll have the info next time.
Scully: HEHE, I could just picture the expression on their faces. HAHA! Technically, it's not the leukocytes that make milk white, because there are so few of them in a drop of milk that they would technically be transparent. It's the other things that compose the milk which make it white.
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my name is jessi, i am 24 and new to this site.
i spent the last hour or so reading some of the posts and wow!
i think i am in the right place.. a brief bio, i was raised as a "full" second generation witness (my grandmother converted) but always knew that i didn't want to be a witness.
Hi Jessie! Welcome!
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5 years removed from being inside the indianapolis assembly hall of jehovah's witnesses, 4 years from attending a meeting at the kingdom hall, this morning my girlfriend and i walked into the assembly hall.
we were taking an early morning walk in our jogging clothes in downtown indy.
she asked if there was anywhere i'd like to go.
Everyone here who has left the BORG is stronger for it. It affects some people pretty badly - the WTBTS meme is not easily cured, and in fact, most people even on this board are probably still living with the psychological vestiges of being a Dub, and will probably go to their deathbeds with these things still inside them. For instance, I still get uncomfortable for absolutely no reason in churches of other faiths apart from the KHs (when I went to my uncle and grandmother's funerals, I sweated a bit).
Other, little things. Watching an erotic movie. Touching a girl in an inappropriate way (but I just bluster ahead anyway! )...that sort of thing. Maybe one day it'll be gone...
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i have been out since december 22 1984, 17 years,i was 16 and never looked back!
and thats when apostacy was in the early stages and am now a full fledged member!.
beans
1999. Early. 1999. Thank God I didn't have to spend the last 2 years of High School being a Dub (I was a wild kitty)
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letter writing is just one of the many ways that we can do witnessing.
i have known of sisters and brothers that went through the newspaper looking for obituaries (death announcements) and researched the family members then wrote them a brief letter included the brochure "when someone you love dies".
in doing this some have started bible studies.
Sit on your ass & clock up hours...sounds like my kind of witnessing!
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